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Against The Grain, or Against Nature Chapter 3
In which Des Esseintes meticulously orchestrates a hermetically sealed domestic order, surrounding himself with silent servants and contrived environments that imitate travel and nature’s caprices to evade the vulgarity of physical movement and human contact. He contemplates the folly of natural beauty compared to human artifice, while retreating from the coarse modern world and its raucous, uncultured generations with a mixture of disdain and melancholia.
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